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You Say Musk Ox Dung, I Say It's Horse Hockey

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This passage is from KGB, published by Publish America.

Publish America is definitely not a prestigious publisher, but it's something. At least KGB is out there, available. That's how I see it.

I have gone the whole route of submitting to big publishers, agents, all that, over years.

With Publish America I was at least able to get one of my books in print, my first one.

My thanks to them.

In this passage below we go inside the very private world of D Block at nighttime lockdown, the end of another day in prison.

This is Iowa.

Where all the prisons are paid for, the police ubiquitous, they want to ticket us.

seeya

- Mike
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KGB:

The woman guard walked down. The static talk on the walkie-talkie meant bedtime.

"Lockdown!" she shouted and spoke into her hand machine. The cell doors closed. The sally port doors charged open. The guard cackled into her machine and walked in, down the row, stopping at each cell to say a word.

She walked out, spoke into the machine and the two sally port doors shut behind her.

The lights in the day room snuffed off and the cell lights dimmed, making the hall lights bright.

Baltimore stuck his head out the side of his bottom bunk to read a two-year-old Sports Illustrated from the library cart.

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